Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-09-09
WISCONSIN NEWS.

aoout half the usual crop.
Taylor County's boom in iron gold and
silver ores has subsidized.
Waupaca expects to market 100000
bEsheis of potatoes this year.
A Janesville nurseryman is picking
his second crop of strawberries.
The Oshkosh school board suspects
that it is in the clutches of a coal ring.
Ed. Clemons of Portage, was fined
$3.50 for shooting prairie chickens.
The big sink hcle between Tomahawk
and Merrill has at last been filled up.
The Electric Light company of Merrill
Will furnish light free for churches
large bed of yellow ochIe has been
discovered rear Dodgeville.
Rock river is so low at GAINESVILLE that
the electric light dynamo cannot be
run.
Wool to the amount of 23oOeo pounds
has been purchased at Ripon this sea
son.
1t cost Ed. Clemons, of Portage, five
dollars and costs for killing prairie
chicken.
Duck shooting on Puckaway lake
promises to be unusually good this
season.
The Hayward Lumber company has manu-
factured 22,0O0,0OO feet of lumber already
this season.
Many of the Fond du Lac county farm
ers have commenced plowing several
weeks earlier than usual.
Baraboo is expecting a boom The
iron tiads near there continue to improve
IN appearance.
The best crop raised about Portage
this year is the melon crop, this being
especially true of watermelons.
The contract for repairing the state
Veterans home has been let to Sherwip,
of Waupaca, for $1,000.
H. G. Winslow has been re elected sup
erintendent of schools of Racine, at a
salary of 81 200 per annum.
Waupaca cranberry grower offers
seventy-fve cents per bushel for picking,
or allows the pickers to pick on shares.
Since the fire at Marshfield the freight
earnings of the Wisconsin Central Mt that
place have been 81, 500 per week.
The hop harvest will begin this week.
In the vicinity of Elk Mound the crop is
heavy and the quality Of hops is excel
lent.
Deer are becoming more plentiful iu
Florence county, and hunters are pa
tiently waiting for the hunting season to
open, Oct. L.
The question of water works is now be-
ing discussed at Baukauna, and the
probabilities are that system will soon
be constructed.
A dealer who is posted says that more
calves, lambs and poultry are marketed
in Fond du Lac than in any other city in
the state.
The famous Burt spring on Mackford
prairie, Green Lake Co., the head of the
west branch of Rock river is said to be
dry.
DR.. S. S. Judd, one of the leahing
physicians of Janesville, Wis, died Tues
day evening of hemorrhage of the sto-
mach, aged tftf- eight years.
Ground has been provided at Kaukauna
for the state fish hatchery which will be
built next spring, and will cost about
$4,000.
Ex Congressman Hugh H. Price has
taken contract in the Minnesota piner-
les to put III 25000,000 a year for three
years.
A very rich discovery of zinc ore, dry
bone and blackjack mixed has been
found on the estate of the late Henry
Williams, eight miles northeast of Do Ige-
vile.
E. Cuttings, OF Mt. Pleasant, Racine
county, father OF the county superintend-
ent, received severe and perhaps fatal
in iurIes runauav oaci1apt SatprSoy
night.
Work was commenced last week on the
new ladies' hall for Ripon college. It is
to be three stories high, with basement,
costing $4,000, and is planned to accom-
modate fifty.
Mayor Rogers of Portage, has person
ally notified the men who are running
games about the city to close up at once
saying that gambling has become pub
ic nuIrsance.
Fond du Lac Reporter: Prof. c. A.
Hutchins, left the city this morning to
take up his school duties at Beloit
The Beloit schools will be presided over
by one OF the most scholarly educators
in Wisconsin.
While in many parts of Wisconsin the
honey crop is complete failure in La
Crosse county it is said to be first-class
in quantity and quality. The price
ranges from twelve to fifteen cents for
white comb.
The cases against the locomotive engi-
neers who were arrested in Fort Howard
a few days ago for running trains too
fast in the city, have baen discontinued
on the payment OF costs by the men who
were arrested.
A marsh of seventy-fve acres near
Little Silver Lake, Washington county,
is being cleared of dense underground,
and ditched for a cranberry marsh. Ten
acres have been reclaimed thus far, and
are already bearing thrifty vines.
Two bells cast in 1873 at MessilIa, Mex
10, for the Catholic Church, are TO be
bcought to Milwaukee to be smeIted.
Itris believedthere is atIleast $1,000 In
precious metals which became fused in
when the laborers at the Original cast
ing dropped Jewelry into the molten
mass to propitiate patron saints.
Nebraska 6. A Z. Reunion.